2012-04-07
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Multiple exposures of a Gemini-Titan launch, 1966, posted to Flickr by x-ray delta one (via, via)
2012-03-22
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March Madness: NASA Style by NASA Goddard Photo and Video on Flickr:
Launch madness will hit the east coast in March as NASA launches five rockets in approximately five minutes to study the high-altitude jet stream.
The launch window begins March 14 and runs through April 4. ATREX launch info: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex-launch…
To read more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/atrex.html
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2012-01-11
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Sign over LC14 blockhouse entry showing launches from Launch Pad 14, including the first Mercury launches.
2011-03-01
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Mach Diamonds
Discovery rockets into the blue sky above Launch Pad 39A after liftoff on the STS-133 mission in Feb. 25, 2011. Beneath Discovery’s three main engines are blue cones of light, known as shock or mach diamonds, which are a formation of shock waves in the exhaust plume of an aerospace propulsion system.
Mach diamonds forever.
2010-06-22
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From Vandenburg AFP’s photo gallery: “A Delta II rises above the clouds as Staff Sgt. Eric Thompson freefalls over Lompoc June 7. The instructor with the 532nd Training Squadron planned his skydive to coincide with the launch carrying the Italian Thales Alenia-Space COSMO-SkyMed Satellite”.
Unfortunately, the site doesn’t have a good way of linking to the image (in fact, I suspect the page link above will stop working eventually), which has led to the picture doing the rounds labelled as a Shuttle, rather than rocket, launch. It’s still pretty spiffy, though.
2010-04-09
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Space Shuttle Discovery Soars Over Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World. Well, you can’t fault it as a description.
The second photo, of the remains of the exhaust trail lit by the rising sun, is also pretty spiffy.
2009-07-16
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Remembering Apollo 11 - launch, 1969-07-16 13:32 UTC.
From The Big Picture’s set, Remembering Apollo 11.
